KIT days for wfh

Has anyone with a wfh role done any kit days yet? And was baby at home with you? Did your work mention anything about needing childcare etc?? I haven’t sorted childcare yet so he’ll have to be home with me and I’m worried work are going to have an issue with it😩

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I haven’t done one but I know people that have. For my colleagues KIT ‘day’ it was about an hour and she dialled into a meeting. Baby was at home with her. I am doing a KIT ‘day’ in early feb. I have organised a baby sitter but that is because I am going into the office for a meeting for 2 hours

I think it completely depends on your job. Before I went on maternity I worked from home with my baby for a whole year. My manager was so desperate to keep me in work he didn’t mind me having a baby in the background 😂

I wfh, but haven’t done a KIT day wfh yet. I have done one KIT for a in-person team meeting…and i brought little one along with me (they will say yes if they want baby cuddles 😅). Afterwards we had our work xmas meal.

I will always tell them I have little one with me, i dont have any childcare at all. But i will arrange with my parents if needs be, they live 1.5hr away so its my last resort x

I wfh and I’ve done KIT days, my husband was with my LG then just brought her to me when she needed a feed

I think it's work dependant. I can't work from home in my job so either my husband or a grandma has bub for a couple of hours. I get paid per the hours I work

I WFH and didn't have any KIT days, just a few 30 min meetings with my manager on Teams which I usually had my baby on my lap for and my manager loved seeing her.
I'm returning to work next week and my manager knows I'm intending to work and care for my baby at home with me at the same time (partner WFH too) and we've agreed we're just going to keep talking to ensure it's working for us both

Those of you tha work from home. What are your jobs I'm desperately trying to find a work from home Jon because I can't afford to go back to my current role due to childcare costs

I’m doing a KIT day today 9:30-14:30 and my mum is having baba. I’ve arranged nursery for 2 days a week when I go back in April and my mum will have her the other 3 days but I’m hoping once I’ve settled back into work I can have her with me!! X

Thanks for all your responses, my companies office is like 300miles from where I live so I’m definitely not going to do them in person🤣 will wait and see what my manager says about them

I work an admin type role, I wouldn’t recommend getting a wfh job to have baby with you while you work as it would be incredibly stressful and a lot of companies have it in their contract that you need to have childcare in place to be able to wfh (of course not all). I’ll have to do this one or two days a week for the first few months and I’m dreading it

i’m a trainer for deaf awareness & information /advice advisor.

Although i wfh, i still have to have childcare sorted for my LB as its in my contract that wfh isn’t a replacement for childcare (due to health & safety & fairness) and it’ll be unrealistic to get ur tasks done as baby gets bigger anyway!

But it does offer a lot more flexibility, being able to get little jobs done around the house whilst on your tea/screen/lunch breaks, also with drop off/picks up and appointments or if they are at home poorly, that means you could still work on admin duties etc.

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